From the monthly archives:

November 2008

First-ever photographs of extrasolar planets

26 November 2008

You can read about it at SFSignal.
Astronomers captured images of three planets around one star (infared picture) and a fourth around a second star (visible light photo).
Personally, I find this very cool and can’t wait to see what other planets we’ll [...]

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Mind Control!

21 November 2008

I’ve got one nitpick with the article. Or, at any rate, one right now. We’ll see if I find more.
The title for the article is:
The Army’s Totally Serious Mind-Control Project

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Write or Die?

18 November 2008

Write or Die is a software application that could be useful to you if you’re a. a writer and b. procrastinate writing. As their slugline says, Putting the "Prod" in Productivity! Hopefully not a juiced-up electric cattleprod, though…
With Write or Die, you type your text in [...]

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Fahim Farook inspired by Douglas Adams

17 November 2008

Or so the review goes…
Disclaimer: Fahim Farook is my husband and I love to poke fun at him. No fishies, birdies, or other animals were harmed in the making of this post. Honestly.
Fahim wrote a book called Honest, The [...]

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Bionic Eyes

14 November 2008

It’s called Bionic Eyes, but really, it doesn’t seem to me at all the same as the bionic eyes that Steve Austin had. That is, these eyes don’t make objects appear that much closer. Nope. These are contact lenses fitted with integrated circuitry.
Don’t get me wrong [...]

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Converting pages to posts, or vice versa, in WordPress

13 November 2008

There’s a handy dandy little plugin for WordPress that can convert pages to posts, or posts to pages, and retain all the categories, tags, comments, and so on for that page or post. That plugin is called p2pConverter.
There is a catch, though, and it all depends [...]

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Twitter, Twittering, and Tweets

12 November 2008

I’m twittering now. Have been for a while. It’s kinda fun and interesting.
Twittering, for those who don’t know, is basically microblogging. 140 characters of whatever you want to say about whatever. It can be random thoughts or events that are too small to make [...]

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Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?

11 November 2008

Nope, it ain’t, and that there were many claims that NIS 2009 was not as resource intensive as previous versions was the only reason I gave it a try.
NIS 2008 nearly crashed my system, and many previous versions of Norton AntiVirus actually have crashed my systems. [...]

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Changing of the anti-virus guard

10 November 2008

Yep, it’s true. I’ve been sucked into Fahim’s perpetual cycle of switching anti-virus every few months, only now, it’s expanded to include firewalls. But this time, it’s partially my fault as well.
I’ve been using AVG Free version 8.0 with much happiness. It’s a decent program, it [...]

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